The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-13

gress went to work with zeal and ardo
10 see how they could pretend TO do wha
had been recommended to them by thei
own commission and vet not DO it.
They succeeded. The reduction givel
was only from TO per cent. and of thi
action the party now boasts. But the Re
publican National Convention, M tetin!
in lSSi, the very next year, at Chicago
pledged itself to correct the inequalities d
the tariff. There Is your ''gre tier intel'i
gencen for you- Who created these inc
qualities? Why were they continued 81
long? Whose scheming prevented tiic:,
correction while the work of amending
went on? What have they since done Il
keep that pledge? Nothing. In the HouS'
OF Representatives, they have resisted every
effort which has been made on our part q
consider this subject of tariff reduction
Which party can The more safely be en-.
trusted with The revision OF our national
taxing system is one of the chief issues o
this campaign. The election OF Thomas l.
Powell. Governor, upon the Democratic
platform OF this year, VIII be n sp!endidly
emphatic endorsement OF the Democratic
[ plan, while his defeat will not be n cOndenl-
nation OF it. Ohio ordinarily is a Republic
can state. According to our present Gov
ernor really the people should not take any
Interest in the question of the reduction OF
our tariff duties In the Forum he said -
.'The old time stock argument of the free
! trader that tariff duties are Il tax on the
NJ re greater intelligence" Ii he had said
7 tariff duties are not always n tax on the
consumers to their full amount, as rev.
enue re ormer s1ould have conceded it.
But do We not know that the prices of az
. ticles, almost without exception. have ris-
en- when duties were put upon them, to
I fall again when the tariff Was red;Gcei or
| removed? That has been SO, whether the
parf ular article was an imported or u
home produced one. Take for example the
common necessaries of life, salt and sugar.
During the last iour Yeas before the war.
| Liverpool salt being free from dpty rargt d
n IT, n.
wnen the duty was PIC per hundred pounCs
IL ranged from si.20 to Si.i0 per sack, selling
| during the years of this high tariff gener-
ally as high as 500 per sack. Since the re-
uuction of the duty TO l2c Per hundred i,
has not been above 80 and has ranged
about sI.15. The changes in the price of
our domestic salt have bSen quite as mark
ed and concurrent with the ike change In
the imported salt. There is an inequality
In the dufy on IL will, might nave been
and ought TO be CORE t 81. The great meat
packing moHopclies OF Chicago and other
parts of the country and the fish-cures get
rebate on the foreign salt which they
have used In their exports equal TO the Iu-
ty en- it, while the cheese ana butter max
ers, the cattle feeders, the farmers, in short
all other consumers OF salt, do not get any
refund On that which they use.
They must pay indirectly to the
Government the tax on all foreign
salt they use, or an increased price,
a tribute to the salt makers, on the
domestic article If the tariff dutv
Is not a tax on tho consumer. why
refund to the meat-packcr and fish
erman upon their exports? Sugar
also free IN the four years from IS
56 to 1860 sold as low as 4 cents
per pound ard not higher than 9
cents, ranging generally from 5 to
s cents. 1t increased in price more
than the rate of duty when one Was
put on and came down correspond |
ingly when the duty WAS reduced. |
During the last fiscal year the gov
ernment collected from duties on
sugars and molasses over $4,000,
D00-nearly one dollar for every
man, woman, and child in the land.
Over two cents per pound and about
~ por cent on the value was thus
irawn from the people upon one of
her food articles in daily use.-
Fr I'M $4,000, 900 to S25 100000
should TO saved by the people on
his item of taxation. The sugar
PRODUCERS of this country have been
to increase the price:of the r
'roduct two cents per pound. 1t
hey did SO, then this people have
aid hem tribute to the amount of
10 100000 in the past ten years (
Al this time we have rumors in
he public press of Sugar Trust or
ofgreat sugar refners
MO monopoiis!ic organization to I
ontrol the trnde-to keep up the {
rice--to fight any reduction of the c
iriff--and TO subject The labor en-
aged in their works to their tyran- a
y as far as possible. The protect a
re tariff is to be made use of to them l.
hiie their employees VIII fare 80 t
etter than can be helped. The 1
'nsumer must pay the tribute they c
They shall not escape If C
icy can make strong enough n
9
The duty on foreign salt IS still t,
.ariy 100 per cent. But We have G.
e salt manufacturers of the coun- h
organizing pool to limit the u
control the sales and E
'ep up the price. They claim that OF
is course is made necessary by p
They asked for OF
election on the tariff to promote
cir industry. 1t has built up ii
rye and rich firms lii the business, to
lich now combine to restrain and til
ntract ii. The last Democratic el
'use of Representatives proposed b,
put salt ON the free list and re- ce
ce the tariff on sugar. The Re W
hlicans opposed it. Wo must Gu
it again this winter. To take vc
again the proposition that tariff of
ties are no: a tax on tho consum. :.
. Our Cover nmeut collected last W
IF in the custom house S1SS. GOO z.
D. being ut least three dollars for ~ n,
cry man, woman, and chlld.-- VI ",
atifying news indeed, that some W, W,
ly else paid it all for us! What '0'
easy way for nation to grow es'
h Why reduce the tariff. If by lio
plan all of our expenses can be 10
lccted from foreign nations? &c WI
any importer Of goods, upon OF
ch there is duty, who pays 1t. Gu
does. How does ho get 1t back? Ia, laA
adding it to the price of the ar. II
e before he sell. it so that the TO
'er will pay it to him again, al Ola
ugh he may not know that he OF
5. Buy any such article, while II
The bonded warehouse at any on
OF entry 10 take with you OH a reg
to Europe. You will get it as ann
III cheaper than if you had wait iaf, IA,
intii it had came through the soi
ehouse as the amount of the rea
:. How would protective duty OF
,'e the capitalist 10 pay his Ia WIN
Letter wages. as he claims it MS
!, unless 1t permitted HIM TO any
&c more for ho proaUct of that !nst
r? How has IT enabled the cap lily.
is engaged in some of these pro par.
ID industries to grow immense cap
ch upon their profits. unless it suci
permitted them to tax the con- fef
RS of this country to the extent cant
portion of fhe duty? Is such resu
ng lust? Hssthe government ufac
light to enrich the few at he Eas
Al. l,-r faIIs